I don't use anything I don't own. I spend maybe a hundred bucks a year on a good virtual host and operate four websites off of it, along with a CloudFlare subsc

I don't use anything I don't own. I spend maybe a hundred bucks a year on a good virtual host and operate four websites off of it, along with a CloudFlare subscription for speed. I run an ownCloud server at home, everything is backed up locally and then offsite to one company I trust. If any of these entities went under I'd be out a small amount of money and some time getting setup somewhere else, but I'd be dinged, not dead. I get extremely uncomfortable with "platforms" of all types. I've been burned so many times when the shiny new website everyone used isn't shiny and new anymore and suddenly is gone, and bang, there goes everything you made right with it. And yeah, never used Medium. My websites don't get a ton of traffic but I don't need to be famous so, I really don't feel the need to produce content for a faceless Silicon Valley attention company.